Kate L. Lindsey

About Fellow

Kate L. Lindsey is an assistant professor of linguistics at Boston University. Her research centers on the documentation and description of under-researched languages, with a focus on the Pahoturi River language family of Papua New Guinea. She works closely with speaker communities to build foundational resources, like grammars, dictionaries, and text collections, that support both linguistic analysis and language maintenance.

Lindsey is also a phonologist, and she draws on large natural spoken corpora to investigate phonetic and phonological variation. Her current projects include a reference grammar and dictionary of Ende, a new documentary dictionary series at Language Science Press, and corpus-based research on stress and phonological variation in Ende and Chuvash.

Selected Publications

• Lindsey, Kate L. The Ende Way: Short Stories and Songs from Limol Prepared with the Ende Language Committee. Open Text Collections. Berlin: Language Science Press, 2025.
• Lindsey, Kate L. “Ende.” Journal of the International Phonetic Association 52, no. 3 (2021): 581–601.
• Lindsey, Kate L., and Dineke Schokkin, eds. Phonetic Fieldwork in Southern New Guinea. Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication 24. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2021.
• Lindsey, Kate L., Dineke Schokkin, and Nairan Wu. “The Pahoturi River Language Family, with Special Reference to its Verbal Puzzles.” Linguistic Typology 26, no. 3 (2022): 511–42.
• Lindsey, Kate L., Katherine Anne Strong, and Katie Drager. “Kawa and the Variable Stopping of Retroflex Obstruents in Ende.” Asia-Pacific Language Variation 8, no. 2 (2022): 150–73.